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applegrove

(118,915 posts)
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 09:31 AM Mar 5

Biden Looks to Taunt Trump

Biden Looks to Taunt Trump

March 5, 2024 at 8:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard 43 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/03/05/biden-looks-to-taunt-trump/

"SNIP..........

“President Biden is privately pushing for a much more aggressive approach to 2024: Go for Donald Trump’s jugular,” Axios reports.

“Biden is convinced he’ll rattle Trump if he taunts him daily.”

“Biden has told friends he thinks Trump is wobbly, both intellectually and emotionally, and will explode if Biden mercilessly gigs and goads him — ‘go haywire in public,’ as one adviser put it.”

“Other sources tell us that Biden is looking for a fight.”

............SNIP"

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Biden Looks to Taunt Trump (Original Post) applegrove Mar 5 OP
What's the expression? They got his Irish up Walleye Mar 5 #1
Go for it. Just do it. SammyWinstonJack Mar 5 #2
Biden and Trump are going "split-screen" in Georgia... agingdem Mar 5 #55
"Other sources tell us that Biden is looking for a fight." Good. marble falls Mar 5 #3
Most of us have been looking for DEMs to fight more Attilatheblond Mar 5 #52
As Alice Cooper once said..... ProudMNDemocrat Mar 5 #4
When Alice ran for Governor of AZ, his motto was: a troubled man for troubled times. marble falls Mar 5 #63
Orange clown is easy. Obama sure had his MOMFUDSKI Mar 5 #71
He should.... Happy Hoosier Mar 5 #5
laughing stock markodochartaigh Mar 5 #15
One of Joe's special... 2naSalit Mar 5 #60
Yes, he needs to feel like he has become a national embarrassment. chicoescuela Mar 5 #17
tRump core won't desert him in 2024, but it's the wobbly middle Biden must aim at. Bernardo de La Paz Mar 5 #21
Why not? no_hypocrisy Mar 5 #6
Yes! More of this, please Alice Kramden Mar 5 #7
Please Excuse Me, But What Does TSF Stand For??? panfluteman Mar 5 #30
The Sick F*ck mac56 Mar 5 #35
That Sick Fuck MagickMuffin Mar 5 #36
Shit Face is a good substitute Alice Kramden Mar 5 #58
Reported by Daily Beast and Politico Alice Kramden Mar 5 #59
lance that boil eShirl Mar 5 #8
Good BeyondGeography Mar 5 #9
Good 2 Bernardo de La Paz Mar 5 #20
I like feisty Biden LetMyPeopleVote Mar 5 #10
Actually, tRump has always been beaten, ... by Hillary, Nancy, and others Bernardo de La Paz Mar 5 #27
You have to beat these magats at their own game. TSExile Mar 5 #11
Biden should go after his snorting of Adderall Submariner Mar 5 #12
Taunting with less than rock-solid facts will backfire. There is no need Bernardo de La Paz Mar 5 #25
I think he should until after the covention calguy Mar 5 #13
Give Trump markodochartaigh Mar 5 #19
I sure hope this happens. nt TeamProg Mar 5 #14
Taunt. Ridicule. Mock. All of the above. Then do it again. Buns_of_Fire Mar 5 #16
Humor is the most subversive tactic of all. NBachers Mar 5 #18
I hope Biden when taunting tfg KS Toronado Mar 5 #22
OK, that made me LOL. soldierant Mar 5 #67
Bwahahahahaha🤣 sheshe2 Mar 5 #68
Love to see President Biden say that KS Toronado Mar 6 #78
YES YES YES finally!! usaf-vet Mar 5 #23
Let's cilla4progress Mar 5 #24
Dems fighting back instead of just laughing it all off as claptrap BS. Bengus81 Mar 5 #26
Do to trump at SOTU what Obama did to him at the Correspondent's Dinner... Wounded Bear Mar 5 #28
At SOTU. TALK about polio Captain Zero Mar 5 #37
Nope. SOTU is neither the time nor the place for campaign attacks Attilatheblond Mar 5 #56
"He has no money" RainCaster Mar 5 #29
It's almost too easy to bait this hulking boob Blue Owl Mar 5 #31
Yes! Do it and be brutal. Golden Raisin Mar 5 #32
Like you'd to to a rattlesnake n/t shanti Mar 5 #74
Biden needs to stay proactive. StarryNite Mar 5 #33
Joe should tweet clips from Obama's remarks at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Talitha Mar 5 #34
Trump has thin skin and huge ago. Irish_Dem Mar 5 #38
I love this idea. ShazzieB Mar 5 #39
Taunt TSF? Go for it! ShazzieB Mar 5 #40
Oops! They conjured Dark Brandon. CrispyQ Mar 5 #41
He should always ask "Where's Melania?" pfitz59 Mar 5 #42
Trump is going to overthrow the governement we have had for centuries. twodogsbarking Mar 5 #43
It is a political slippery slope when you do this. nevergiveup Mar 5 #44
drumpf doesn't do well with slopes JoseBalow Mar 5 #65
Hope he starts Thursday at the State of the Union. Qutzupalotl Mar 5 #45
PWN TFG [on bumperstickers and shirts] Kennah Mar 5 #46
Go Dark Brandon!!! MadMike47 Mar 5 #47
I would really like to see Joe johnnyfins Mar 5 #48
Do it, Joe! Take no prisoners! (nt) Paladin Mar 5 #49
Let Dark Brandon Loose! Deep State Witch Mar 5 #50
YES PLEASE GaYellowDawg Mar 5 #51
Yes! Yes! And Hell Yes! SarahD Mar 5 #53
Good!! Go for it!! relayerbob Mar 5 #54
That sounds ridiculous MorbidButterflyTat Mar 5 #57
This is one area Joe shines in campaigns. SYFROYH Mar 5 #61
Do it. Do like Obama did to him. LiberalFighter Mar 5 #62
He should keep referencing drumpf's tiny hands JoseBalow Mar 5 #64
Biden is right. Trump can't take it. Joinfortmill Mar 5 #66
Joe's going full Corn Pop on Stinky! Generic Brad Mar 5 #69
as suggested by Prof. Sabato. elleng Mar 5 #70
That is what I have been saying to those worried... IthinkThereforeIAM Mar 5 #72
Best news I've had all day Butterflylady Mar 5 #73
Yes please! budkin Mar 5 #75
In 2020, Trump had a strategy of goading Biden to make him stutter. keithbvadu2 Mar 5 #76
Release the Dark Brandon! tclambert Mar 5 #77

agingdem

(7,874 posts)
55. Biden and Trump are going "split-screen" in Georgia...
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 02:08 PM
Mar 5

the Georgia difference...Biden's is traveling to Atlanta, one of the most populated multi-ethnic/multicultural/diverse/inclusive cities in the US, where he will give a speech at the Ebenezer Baptist Church... and Trump is doing one of his whine/Nazi/victim garbled mush mouth blah blah blah rallies in Rome, Georgia, home to Marjorie Taylor Greene, and where whites outnumber blacks 2-1..

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,897 posts)
4. As Alice Cooper once said.....
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 09:40 AM
Mar 5

"NO more Mr. Nice guy. NO more Mr. Clean!"

Joe knows TSF has a fragile ego and will capitalize on it.

Happy Hoosier

(7,480 posts)
5. He should....
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 09:45 AM
Mar 5

I do not beleive that traditional campaign strategy will work. Trump's voters are not being driven by traditional reasons, and those voters abandoning Biden are likewise not driven by traditional forces. Biden's campaign must be aggressive, persistent, and relentless.

Trump must become an omnipresent laughing stock.

chicoescuela

(1,032 posts)
17. Yes, he needs to feel like he has become a national embarrassment.
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 10:15 AM
Mar 5

Wouldn’t hurt if he mentions that he is a racist asswipe

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,073 posts)
21. tRump core won't desert him in 2024, but it's the wobbly middle Biden must aim at.
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 10:22 AM
Mar 5

By goading tRump into self-destruction, Biden can let him make mistakes and stay out of the way of the collapse.

100% endorsement of your last sentence, with the additional proviso that tRump must be made an eternal object lesson in the dangers of the forces attacking democracy.

Alice Kramden

(2,169 posts)
7. Yes! More of this, please
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 09:48 AM
Mar 5

You go, Joe - TSF's public meltdowns will intensify and perhaps get through to the uninformed

panfluteman

(2,075 posts)
30. Please Excuse Me, But What Does TSF Stand For???
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 11:19 AM
Mar 5

The best I could figure out was that it might stand for The Shit Face.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,073 posts)
27. Actually, tRump has always been beaten, ... by Hillary, Nancy, and others
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 10:55 AM
Mar 5

tRump has never won a popular vote, not in 2016, 2018 (midterms), 2020, 2020 again (Senators from Georgia), and 2022 (pinked the red wave).

TSExile

(2,548 posts)
11. You have to beat these magats at their own game.
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 09:56 AM
Mar 5

Please, President Biden...call him a RAPIST every chance you get. Not only because it's true, but it could help you considerably with the female vote.

Submariner

(12,515 posts)
12. Biden should go after his snorting of Adderall
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 10:02 AM
Mar 5

why not mention his Apprentice TV show producer saw his drug use;

https://people.com/tv/former-apprentice-noel-casler-accuses-donald-trump-drug-use/

Also, have a reporter ask Trump if his wife is going to start selling her porno clips as NFT's in addition to his Air Nazi sneakers.

Drag him and his clan into the gutter where they belong.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,073 posts)
25. Taunting with less than rock-solid facts will backfire. There is no need
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 10:46 AM
Mar 5

There is no need to get lost in the weeds of allegations and counters.

Taunt tRump with obvious solid facts. There are so many to use. The technique is to make an outrageous conjecture to get attention and get under his skin so he reacts and then the media will have to say "Well, actually, there is a fact behind this" and play some clip of tRump being deplorable.

* Bankruptcies - so many of them. Taunt with lines like "tRump will declare bankruptcy after he loses the election and it will be bigger than all four previous ones combined. Or is it six?"

* "When fake christian tRump attempts to read the bible he corrects passages with a big marker." Pure conjecture reminds viewers of fact that tRump used upside down bible as prop.

* Against school vaxes: "tRump wants to cripple public school children with polio because their parents vote Democratic." The anti-vax (mandate) stance is factual. The taunt can be pure conjecture if the foundation is factual.

* "Ugly billionaire has to hire sex workers to cheat on his wife."

* Sexual predator: "Gonna buy another teen beauty pageant so he can tour the dressing room?"

calguy

(5,351 posts)
13. I think he should until after the covention
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 10:02 AM
Mar 5

to bring out the heavier artillery. If trump has a meltdown too early, the GOP might freak out and dump him. After the convention, they're pretty much stuck with him

Buns_of_Fire

(17,213 posts)
16. Taunt. Ridicule. Mock. All of the above. Then do it again.
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 10:15 AM
Mar 5

If this is the way TSF and the Nazipublicans want to play the game, fine with me. I'm sorry, Michelle.

Naturally, if Team Biden wants to gather some ideas, I'd suggest DU would be an excellent place to start. We've been mocking Fat Hitler since before mocking Fat Hitler was cool.

KS Toronado

(17,461 posts)
22. I hope Biden when taunting tfg
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 10:38 AM
Mar 5

ends his message with "I'm Barack Obama and I approve of this message", keep him confused so he
continues to tell his followers how he's going to kick Obama out of the White House.

cilla4progress

(24,800 posts)
24. Let's
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 10:39 AM
Mar 5

GOOOOOOO!!!

I've been noticing an increasing focus in the media about tfs' gaffes, his incompetence, his slurring, and I cant help but think it's part of a campaign, a strategy on the part of Biden's team (and it's true...).

An excellent counterbalance to all the handwringing over Joe's age.

Who the hell cares how "old" Joe is, if he's competent?

So what tfs is a mere 4 years younger...HE'S INCOMPETENT!

Bengus81

(6,938 posts)
26. Dems fighting back instead of just laughing it all off as claptrap BS.
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 10:50 AM
Mar 5

Pretty refreshing and needed for decades!

Wounded Bear

(58,778 posts)
28. Do to trump at SOTU what Obama did to him at the Correspondent's Dinner...
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 10:58 AM
Mar 5


I know he wouldn't go all in at an important function like that, but he should at least interject a barb or two.

StarryNite

(9,472 posts)
33. Biden needs to stay proactive.
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 11:30 AM
Mar 5

By doing so he puts dump on the defensive and that's when he gets really sloppy and wigged out exposing his true self.

Talitha

(6,639 posts)
34. Joe should tweet clips from Obama's remarks at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 11:43 AM
Mar 5

Followed by a clip of Joe giving a wink and a smile.

CrispyQ

(36,562 posts)
41. Oops! They conjured Dark Brandon.
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 12:09 PM
Mar 5



This is a cool sign! The other side has Joe in sunglasses. It does look really gigantic in this shot though. (Not my image.)
https://shop.joebiden.com/double-sided-big-head/

pfitz59

(10,419 posts)
42. He should always ask "Where's Melania?"
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 12:23 PM
Mar 5

With Jill by his side. Needle Trump about his missing Melodie, Melissa, Mel, Malie, or whatever name he gives her.

nevergiveup

(4,772 posts)
44. It is a political slippery slope when you do this.
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 12:27 PM
Mar 5

He will have to pick and choose wisely. This approach can backfire.

GaYellowDawg

(4,452 posts)
51. YES PLEASE
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 01:40 PM
Mar 5

And send as many proxies on the attack as you can, too. And tell all the dipshits in our party in Congress who are protesting Biden to get the fuck on board, yesterday. And start calling out the media 24/7 for their anti-Biden, anti-Democratic, anti-liberal bias in reporting.

SarahD

(1,318 posts)
53. Yes! Yes! And Hell Yes!
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 01:49 PM
Mar 5

Treating him as a normal person just normalizes his psychotic behavior. Flush him out, Joe!

MorbidButterflyTat

(1,881 posts)
57. That sounds ridiculous
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 02:32 PM
Mar 5

Prez Biden's "friends" and mysterious unnamed "sources," are blabbing private convos to the media? I have a hard time imagining Prez Biden saying he wants to go for the oozing sore's jugular. Good luck to anyone trying to cut through his blubbery neckgina, or even locating his jugular.

Next we'll have "Real White House Wives of DC," with salacious gossip and melodramatic meltdowns, as if there's not enough from irresponsible media already.


Fighting him and the MAGAts is obvious.

SYFROYH

(34,186 posts)
61. This is one area Joe shines in campaigns.
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 03:42 PM
Mar 5

I've never liked it much during our primaries, but he spit the acid when he wants to.

Use your powers for good, Joe!!!

JoseBalow

(2,607 posts)
64. He should keep referencing drumpf's tiny hands
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 04:12 PM
Mar 5

He really, really hates that!

In a verbatim reenactment of an actual interview, Donald Trump (Roy Wood Jr.) makes it clear to the Washington Post editorial board that he doesn't have tiny hands.

Generic Brad

(14,276 posts)
69. Joe's going full Corn Pop on Stinky!
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 08:33 PM
Mar 5

When they go low, we need to do a reach around and give them an atomic wedgie followed by cartoon windmill style haymakers.

No fear! Just mockery!

elleng

(131,391 posts)
70. as suggested by Prof. Sabato.
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 08:46 PM
Mar 5

*Sabato proposes Dems use a hugely negative ANTI-tmp campaign to support President Biden's 2d term.
on Ruhle show.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218744735

IthinkThereforeIAM

(3,078 posts)
72. That is what I have been saying to those worried...
Tue Mar 5, 2024, 09:33 PM
Mar 5

... by the time November 5th rolls around, and hopefully 2 days before the election, Trump turns into a fruitcake in front of a small town bakery, hopefully in Iowa or Indiana.

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